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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Mining & the mines

Mining & the mines, 1896

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Bywong Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 12 November 1896 · page 4

BYWONG, Monday.—Things are exceedingly dull here owing o the want of rain, and awaiting results from English capitalists, to whom the leading mines are under offer until the end of the current year…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 4

TUENA, Wednesday.—The Tuena Freehold syndicate have struck the Golden Dyke formation, carrying payable gold 8ft. in width in the new shaft now being sunk 14 chains…

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Mining at Junction Point

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 14 November 1896 · page 5

MINING NEWS.—Tranter and party are still raising good stone at the Hillside. The Red jacket party have sunk a new shaft and struck payable stone. They are raising…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 16 November 1896 · page 2

THINGS are exceedingly dull in this vicinity owing to the want of rain and waiting results from English capitalists, to whom the leading mines are under offer until the end…

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Lucky Mining

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 November 1896 · page 2

IT is just 12 months ago that our late Cathedral organist gave up his profession to go mining. We hear on good authority that le has been sought out by men of stability through a report in the Daily…

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Reminiscences of Johannesburg. Life in the Gold-fields of South Africa. a Digger's Story

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 17 November 1896 · page 4

IN the early days, when gold was first discovered in the Transvaal, many men left their occupations and their homes, and trekked northwards in order to try their luck in the now country. Some of them found…

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The Braidwood Mining District

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 November 1896 · page 4

THE S. M. Herald's special reporter supplies an interesting article on the Braidwood mining district. He says:—To a casual observer the town of Braidwood would not appear to have much to do…

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Rich Gold Find in North Queensland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 November 1896 · page 4

GEORGETOWN, Tuesday.—Great excitement has arisen over an extraordinary gold find at Macdonaldtown. A minor named Hogan, working at the top of the hill, after sinking 4ft., bottomed…

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The Rich Gold Find in North Queensland

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 19 November 1896 · page 2

GEORGETOWN, Wednesday.—Hogan, who struck the rich find of gold at Macdonaldtown, reached here to-day. He says that a fortnight ago he took up an ordinary alluvial claim of 50ft. He worked…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 2

SNOW and Liddell continue to brook rich stone from their roof at Moliagul (says a telegram from Dunolly, Vic.). They have discovered another rich neat of golden stone,…

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The Rich Gold Find in North Queensland

The Yass Courier · Friday 20 November 1896 · page 2

205oz. OF GOLD FROM 1cwt. OF STONE. Georgetown, Wednesday. -- Hogan, who struck the rich find of gold at Macdonaldtown, reached here to-day. He says that a fortnight…

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A Mining Fatality

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 4

ADELONG, Thursday.—A fatality occurred lost night at the Gibraltar mine. While a workman named John Dore was being lowered in the winze, he fell from the bucket, a distance of 37ft., breaking…

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Thirty Miners Killed. London, Nov. 19

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 21 November 1896 · page 2

An explosion of firedamp has occurred in a colliery at Reckling Hanson, in Westphalia, Rhenish Prussia. Thirty miners were killed and 50 others have…

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Mining

Goulburn Herald · Monday 23 November 1896 · page 2

PAMBULA, Saturday.—Another reef has been discovered at Nelson, the prospects being said to be excellent. Gold is plainly visible in milky-white quartz. Two or three Pambula…

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Gold at 3200 Feet

The Yass Courier · Tuesday 24 November 1896 · page 2

Important news was received from Mr. Lansell's No. 180 Mine, Bendigo (Vic.), on Wednesday. It was that the 3200ft crosscut, which is now in about 120ft, has struck stone,…

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Mining at Tuena

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 24 November 1896 · page 4

TUENA, Saturday.—At the Warden's Court yesterday two weeks' protection was granted on the Golden Dyke mine. The owners' application for three months' suspension was referred to the…

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Mining. Lowe and Alchin Company

Goulburn Herald · Wednesday 25 November 1896 · page 2

A SPECIALLL meeting of the Lowe and Alchin Central Mining and Quartz-Milling Company was held at the Forbes Hotel, Sydney, on Saturday night, Dr. English of Yass being…

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Mining on Private Lands. Summary of the Amending Act

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 26 November 1896 · page 4

THE new Mining on Private Lands Amendment Act will come into operation in the course of a few weeks, and the officers of the Mines Department are now busily engaged in preparing the necessary…

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Miners' Rights

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 November 1896 · page 4

IT may not be generally known that an Act was passed in July last affecting the issue of Miners' Rights. Under this Act the sum to be paid for a Miners' Right or Mineral License shall be 5s for…

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Mining at Bywong

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Saturday 28 November 1896 · page 6

BYWONG, November 24.—Messrs. Frank Johnston and R. J. Simonds, of Sydney, have secured the most valuable properties of this field under offer, sent full particulars per mail, which left Sydney on…

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